Thread: Comments on Patch 1.21

Originally Posted by Coglin

Now I am wondering how they are playing there BLM that the fact that they can basically fully replinish there MP pool with convert. which means basically right out of the gate, double the burst damage. group that in with bards song that speeds up MP replinishments and you have even more output. Not to mention there AoE crowd control benifit.

For one, a spamming Black Mage is soon a dead BLM. Any BLM doing it right is regaining MP quickly enough as it is and shouldn't need Convert for most situations.

Originally Posted by Eagleheart

Jobs themselves are less utilitarian in particularly difficult situations, ostensibly when they should be at their finest. Saying thereafter that they arer dependent upon another class to achieve reasonable functionality in a difficult situation again only furthers my point. As simple a change as not locking off access to Stoneskin or Sentinel is sufficient to address the problem, or removing the HP penalty on Jobs compared to Classes.

You do understand that this is precisely how the devs informed us the situation would be before the jobs came out.

They stated jobs would be more group oriented for there combined utility benefits, and classes would be more beneficial to low man/solo situations. Essentially displaying that the difference between jobs and classes is working as intended.

Originally Posted by Eagleheart

I am saying that while it may be working as intended, I, and my social circle, think that one or two small alterations would do no harm, and would go a great way towards making the Jobs work much better in their stated functions, and I posted just that. o.o That's all, really.

Personally, I think that it would make more sense for the Jobs to have higher maximum HP and lower maximum MP, and for Classes to have higher maximum MP, and lower maximum HP. Outside of extreme boss battles, how much HP you have at any given moment (for attacks like Hellfire, Moggle's finisher, whatever Garuda will have) is less important than how much HP you have over the course of the battle (more MP for additional cures, Decoys, et cetera). o.o

Much greater damage output as a whole with Jobs. Moogle Memento is already a joke since you can get all the Moogles down in phase 1 even with a party of classes. Hellfire isn't a problem either, because it's very possible to get all the spikes down with Jobs.

If you bottleneck yourself into the thought process that you must endure a very strong attack by the primals and that for this you need defensive buffs or high HP, then that's your own undoing. Jobs open up new strategies.

Try to come up with new strategies and more importantly give yourself more than 5 days with a new system before you begin to judge its effectiveness.

Originally Posted by Eagleheart

Boing!

Not responding to agree, disagree or even comment on your post any more than to thank you in regard to your writing style. Well-spoken, coherent, punctuated, substantial - basically all of the above. Thank you, sir.